Re: The things one finds

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Matt Pearson wrote:

> > To make things
> > worse, the history of linguistics is very nearly an empty discipline:
> > people are taught, at most, caricatures of what their predecessors
> > thought.  (This is true of the natural sciences as well, alas.)
>
> Agreed!  I certainly wish *I* knew more about the history of
> linguistics...
>
Have you seen the series on history of linguistics published
by Longman? They're a bit hard to read, since they've been
translated from Italian, but give a lot information. I've only
got one volume, but I've seen the rest on the shelves at Blackwell.

  Lepschy, Guilio (ed.). 1994. History of Linguistics: classical and
  medieval linguistics, volume II..Harlow: Longman Group.

This one is very short, indeed:

  Robins, R.H. 1990. A short history of linguistics. Harlow: Longman
  Group.

For the rest, I'd say one has to read representative works from
through the ages ;-).

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt